Gender and culture in literature and film East and West : issues of perception and interpretation : conference papers / edited by Nitaya Masavisut, George Simson, Larry E. Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Honolulu, HI : College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii : East-West Center, 1994.
Description
xxxv, 296 p. : ill. 23 cm.

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Notes
Papers presented at a conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from May 20 to May 22, 1992.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Unsex me here : an oriental's plea for gender reconciliation / Chetana Nagavajara
  • Ophelia's travels / David Baker
  • Perceptions of the ideal Malay woman in the works of Malaysian women novelists / Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir
  • Images of white women and Indian nationalism : ambivalent representations in Shakespeare Wallah and Junoon / Lubna Chaudhry and Saba Khattak
  • Veiling the phallus : French modernism and the feminization of the Asian male / William Burgwinkle
  • M. Butterfly : transvestism and cultural cross-dressing in the critique of empire / Rosalind Morris
  • Do you see what I mean? : gender and communication in cross-cultural perspective / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel and Kitima Indrambarya
  • Social and cultural constraints on modern Thai women / Somporn Varnado
  • Dragon chow : asylum seekers in German film / Victoria Joan Moessner
  • The king and I : East and West, men and women / Pamela S. DaGrossa --^
  • Gender transformations in Asian/American representations / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Gender, genre, and myth in Thelma and Louise / Glenn Man
  • Tanizaki's Naomi : Japanese Pygmalion meets westernized vamp / Jean Toyama
  • Beauty as a homoerotic aspect in Forbidden colors (1951) and Death in Venice (1912) : an East-West encounter between Mishima Yukio and Thomas Mann / Linde Keil
  • Gender and narrativity in Japanese literature : images of Ono No Komachi / Joni Koehn
  • The importance of being artificial : gender and culture in Mishima Yukio's Confessions of a mask / Roger C. Lewis
  • Comm-fucian-ism : patriarchal politics in Judou / William A. Callahan
  • "East" meet "West" : the confrontation of different cultures in Thai T.V. dramas and films / Kanjana Kaewthep
  • A denaturalized performance : gender and body construction in Thailand's As you like it / Valerie Wayne --^
  • The Indian woman's dilemma : a study of formations in gender construct through mediation of Western culture in Tagore's Ghare Baire and Ray's film version / Arundhati Banerjee
  • The 'Tuans' of Malaya revisited : voices of the 'ruled' / Mohd Kamal Nawawi and Ruzy Suliza Hashim
  • Gender in illustrations to Thai historical literature / Napat Sirisambhand and Alec Gordon
  • Ninjettes, nuns, and lady asskickers : Thomas Pynchon's bow to the mythical Orient / Jeffrey Carroll
  • A woman's place is in the kitchen of knowledge : premodern and postmodern representations of food (for thought) in Japanese film / Marie Thorsten Morimoto
  • The proposed series on the history of Asian biography : polemic and science across ten cultures / George Simson
  • Epilogue : Asian cultural texts and Western theory / Wimal Dissanayake.
ISBN
0824816021 (paperback : acid-free paper)
LCCN
^^^94006572^
OCLC
30029027
RCP
H - S
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